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APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 14, 1911.

Patented Aug. 15,1911.

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' Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug; 15,1911. Application and June 14, 1911. Serial no. 633,213. 4

T all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, AMBROSE R100, 2. subject of the King of Great Britain, residing .at lVa-ipuku, T aranaki, in the Dominion of New Zea'land, have invented a new and useful Improved T eat-Cup for Milking-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to that class of teat cups formilking machines consisting of an outer rigid casing and an inner flexible lining adapted to receive the teat and to be connected with the vacuum action of the milkpail, while the space between the lining and the casing is alternately connected with two different degrees of air pressure by the action of a pulsator in order that the lining may be alternately inflated to press upon the teat wit-hinit, and deflated to release the Pressure. 1 enti'on consists in an improved a tion of lining by means of which the action of the human hand upon a teat when-hand milking,-may be closely resembled, and in an improved form of cap and mouthpie-ce'fo'r holding the lining in position in the casing] In' describjng the invention reference will be made to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which p Figures 1 and 2 A are vertical sections through the center of the teat cup but showing-the respectively diifer'ent halves thereof. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan thereof taken on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan of the cup.

The cup is formed as usual with the outer casing Z of metallic or other approved material and the inner flexible lining b of rubber into the bottom of which the milk can teat froi connection enters through the aperture 0.

(Z (Fig. 2) is the usual pulsator connection leading into the space between the casing and the lining for the well known purpose. In this invention the lining is provided with a row of knobs 6 arranged in line one beneath the other, down its inside surface. It is also provided with two projecting r bs 1' extending down its inside surface in lines parallel with each other and with the row of knobs 6. These ribs and the knobs are arranged at equal circumferential distances apart around the lining,.as shown 1n F 1g. 3.

between the knobs and the ribs and between The lining is weakened at points midway the tworibs, by means of grooves 9 formed in its inner surface and extending vertic'ally down such surface; The grooves g on the reverse sides of the knobs are made of greater-depth and width to the groove 9 between the two ribs, for a purpose to be hereinafter more fully. referred to.- The lining is also made 'to increase in thickness from its upper to its lower end, the, in-

ternal diameter however being uniform throughout the height of the lining, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The actions of the pulsator upon the lining will thus be such that the teat inserted therein will first be squeezed at its upper end and the squeeze" will gradually extend down to its-point and "this squeezing action by reason of the special construction of. lining employed will be transmitted to the teat through the engage- -ment-therewith of the knobs eand ribs f.

The teat will thus be gripped at three equidistant points around it, the knobs 6 pressing thereon in regular order from top to bottom. By'reason also of the grooves on both sides'of the knobs being deeper and wider than the ot er the portion of the lining having the obs thereon will respond first to the action of the pulsator. Consequently the knobswill first engage with the teat and cause it to he moved iii toward the ribs which will then engage with it and" act as a cushion against which the knobs will press it.' The action of the lin ing on the teat will thus resemble the action of the human hand when hand milking, in

that the ribs-will represent the folds in the palm of the hand while the knobs represent the balls of the fingers pressing the" teat against the palm and working in order from the toptoth'e' bottom.

The n per end of the lining is formed lining. The cap is screwed or otherwise fastened on to the casing so that it will cause the top of the lining to be can ht and. held firmly between itand the ca 'ngtop. The

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